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Rhamnus

（Ῥαμνοῦς). Now Obrio Kastro; a demus in Attica, belonging
to the tribe Aeantis, which derived its name from the ῥάμνος, a kind of prickly shrub. Rhamnus was situated on a small rocky peninsula
on the east coast of Attica, sixty stadia from Marathon. It possessed a celebrated temple of
Nemesis, who is hence called by the Latin poets Rhamnusia dea or virgo (Catull. lxvi. 71; Ovid, Trist. v. 819). A
colossal statue of the goddess in this temple was the work of Agoracritus, the pupil of
Phidias (Strabo, p. 396), or possibly by Phidias himself (Pausan. i. 33, 2). Remains of the
temple still exist.